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Aziz Alami Chentoufi

Aziz Alami Chentoufi
King Fahad Medical City
Saudi Arabia
Biography

Aziz Alami Chentoufi is a Consultant and Head of Immunology/Serology/HLA section at Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, King Fahad Medical City (KFMC). He is also an Assistant Professor of Immunology at Faculty of Medicine, King Saud Ibn AbdulAziz University. He is the Chairperson of Research Committee of PCLMA-KFMC. He is the Diplomate of the American Board of Medical laboratory Immunology D(ABMLI ), Fellow of the Association of Clinical Sciences (FACSc), accredited by the European Society of Translational Medicine (PCTM) and Fellow of the Academy of translational Medicine (FacadTM). He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences (Tolerance induction to xenogenic and allogenic antigens using monoclonal antibody anti-igM and anti-IgD) from the University Catholic of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium in 1999. He has done postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University, Montreal, Canada from 1999 to 2004 where he worked on immunogenetic of type 1 Diabetes and gene therapy for graft versus host disease then he was appointed as specialist at the University of California Irvine-Medical Center, Irvine, California, USA in 2006 where he was a key investigator in the development of mucosal vaccine against herpes simplex virus type 1 and 2.

Research Interest

He is an independent Immunologist with a national and international reputation in vaccine development against both infectious and autoimmune diseases. He is well-integrated into the scientific community within the United States as well as Europe and Saudi Arabia and he is actively involved in a number of professional societies including American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetic (ASHI), Association of Clinical Scientist, Canadian Society of Immunology and The Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS). He is PI and Co-PI in a number of research grant proposals and associate editor in many scientific journals and has more than 50 publications in high impact factor journals.  

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